ERP and EEG Markers of Brain Visual Attentional Processing

Dear Colleagues,

Brain Sciences is seeking submissions for a forthcoming Special Issue entitled “ERP and EEG Markers of Brain Visual Attentional Processing”.

Visual attention includes a multifaceted pool of cognitive and perceptual functions (dividing, switching, orienting, searching and sustaining) allowing privileged processing of relevant information and concurrent filtering of irrelevant inputs. This applies to both space and object processing and involves both the anterior and posterior attentional systems.

These functions are associated with a modulation of alpha, beta, theta and gamma EEG oscillations, and affect ERP components both at the earliest (C1-C2 or PN/80 levels) and later latencies (P1, N1, N2pc or P300 levels). These alterations result in beneficial cognitive and behavioral effects. However, the functions of EEG bands and ERP components, as well as the latency and brain locations at which attention affects these indicants, are still debated topics.

This Special Issue aims to contribute to this debate and to take a fresh look at how brain EEG and ERP waves help enable visual attention.

We invite investigators to contribute articles that will add precious insights into the neural mechanisms of visual attention. Studies describing these mechanisms in healthy individuals and psychiatric patients of different ages as compared with animal research are also welcomed.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

EEG and ERP waves and their neural generators (hemodynamic, MEG/neuroimaging or source reconstruction data). Possible themes include: Spatial attention, object-based attention to shapes, faces, scenes, gestures, actions, words, spatial frequency, orientation, color, and illusory contours.

Dr. Alberto Zani
Guest Editor

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